The effect of leg-to-body ratio on male attractiveness depends on the ecological validity of the figures.

ABSTRACT: Leg-to-body ratio (LBR) predicts evolutionary fitness, and is therefore expected to influence bodily attractiveness. Previous investigations of LBR attractiveness have used a wide variety of stimuli, including line drawings, silhouettes, and computer-generated images based on anthropometric data. In two studies, community samples of heterosexual women from the USA rated the attractiveness of male figures presented as silhouettes and as detailed computer-generated images with three different skin tones (white, black, and an artificial grey). The effects of LBR depended on the image format. In particular, a curve-fitting analysis indicated that the optimally-attractive LBR for silhouettes was fractionally below the baseline, whereas the optima for more detailed computer-generated images was

SUBMITTER: Versluys TMM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5666244 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature